All About Tambopata

mazon... The moment you step off the plane in the small jungle town of Puerto Maldonado the amazon envelopes you in its mossy green light and scent.

Map of Pery he Tambopata Candamo Reserved Zone is located in southeastern Peru on the border of Bolivia. It's 3.7 million acres stretch over cloud forests in the Andes to lowland rainforests in the Amazon basin. It is home to over 1,300 species of birds, 200 mammalian species, 90 frog species, 1,200 butterfly species and 10,000 species of plants.

etting to Tambopata is part of the adventure. An early morning flight from Lima takes you over the Andes to Puerto Maldonado. It is an eight hour ride up the Madre de Dios River in this boat to camp at the Tambopata Research Center. The scenery is spectacular and wild life and wild life abundant.

Camp at Tambopata hen the boat at last docks on the river bank, you face a wall of rainforest broken only by the opening, like a doorway, of a trail. The trail leads you through the jungle and opens up onto a clearing. Tambopata Research Center sits before you.

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